Notices

As one who's used Office Suite Professional from Mobisys for over 10 years (on Palm, then PocketPC, then Palm, now on Garnet), I have to say that I rarely use it; however, I have saved and sent many pdf's to my N810 and N900. On the other hand, Mobisys Office Suite Pro (on Garnet) is a solid office set up and much, much better than any of the offerings from Dataviz, with the exception of the fact that Mobysis Office will not handle Office 2007/2010 formats.

That said, I am a software slut and will be making a go at setting up OO on my N900 this weekend.

Its not worth the time and effort that goes into using OpenOffice on the N900 . The Office Substitutes are great ( and getting better every other week) .
GNumeric - One of the best Spreadsheet Apps that i have come across on any SmartPhone . It can handle some pretty complex xls spreadsheets without even a hiccup. supports most formats.
AbiWord : Great Docment reader and writer .
FreOffice - Has a Spreadsheet, Document Editor and Presentation Viewer/Editor . This has promise , but is very much a work in progress at the moment

Where did AbiWord on the N900 go?

its still there if i'm not mistaken???

oh duh, it's in dev. always seems like i have to enable that repo to get the good stuff.

AbiWord just has this strange text prediction IN ALL CAPITAL LETTERS that I can't get rid of, rendering it just utterly useless.

Man I wish we'd get anything to do basic text editing with. A little more than leafpad, but I don't think we'd need everything from Open Office either.

Just:
- Write text
- Format text (Font, fontsize, bold, italics, underline, left - centered - right)
- Bulletins
- Line spacing
- Save as .odt, .doc, .txt, .rtf

I don't think I'd personally need much more! Spellchecker yeah maybe, but that I could do with my home PC. I'd write stuff, throw it up into Dropbox and then finalize on my PC.

This might be the wrong thread, but where can I get the best application for powerpoint and Excel 2007/2010 for my N900? I've considered the need to purchase the apps, so would appreciate some advise. Thanks.